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Hi all!
Now that Upgrade 4 is out and about in large quantities we have now discovered a few SNAFUs that happen out in the scary, real world that is home computing. Fortunately the rate of problems is extremely small and so far most are easily worked around. We've identified a few issues that have similar causes which we have clear instructions for work arounds here they are:
1. CMRT Windows customers need to re-license their original key. This is a result of improvements to the licensing system which CMBN, CMBS, and CMFB are already using. To do this launch CMRT with the Upgrade and the first time enter your Engine 4 key. Exit and then use the "Activate New Products" shortcut in your CMRT folder, then enter your Engine 3 license key. That should do the trick.
2. CMRT and CMBN MacOS customers have a similar situation as #2, however the "Activate New Products" is inside the Documents folder in their respective CM folders. For CMBN you have to go through the process described above for each of your license keys. There is no special order to follow.
3. For CMBS and CMFB customers, you need to use the Activate New Products shortcut and enter your Upgrade 4 key. If you launch the game and see a screen that says "LICENSE FAILURE: Base Game 4.0 is required." that is an indication you haven't yet gone through that procedure. Provided you had a properly functioning copy before installing the Upgrade, that should be all you need to do. If in the future you have to install from scratch on a new system you'll need to do the same procedure for both your original license key and your Upgrade 4.0 key.
4. There's always a weird one and here it is. A few Windows users are not getting "Activate New Products" shortcuts created during installation. Apparently anti-virus software is preventing the installer from doing its job. This might not be a problem right now, but it will prove to be an issue at some point in the future. The solution is to create your own shortcut using the following steps:
Disable your anti-virus software before you do anything. Go to your Desktop, right click on the Desktop itself, select NEW->SHORTCUT, use BROWSE to locate the CM EXE that you are trying to fix. The location is then written out. After it type in a single space and then paste this:

-showui

Click NEXT and give your new Shortcut a name (doesn't matter what). Confirm that and you're done. Double click on the new Shortcut and you should be prompted to license whatever it is you need to license.
At this time we have not identified any issues that have not been worked around. Let's hope it stays that way
Steve

We've reorganized our Combat Mission Forums to reflect the fact that most of you are now running Engine 4 and that means you're all using the same basic code. Because of that, there's no good reason to have the discussion about Combat Mission spread out over 5 separate sets of Forums. There is now one General Discussion area with Tech Support and Scenario/Mod Tips sub forums. The Family specific Tech Support Forums have been moved to a new CM2 Archives area and frozen in place.
You might also notice we dropped the "x" from distinguishing between the first generation of CM games and the second. The "x" was reluctantly adopted back in 2005 or so because at the time we had the original three CM games on European store shelves entitled CM1, CM2, and CM3 (CMBO, CMBB, and CMAK). We didn't want to cause confusion so we added the "x". Time has moved on and we have to, so the "x" is now gone from our public vocabulary as it has been from our private vocabulary for quite a while already. Side note, Charles *NEVER* used the "x" so now we're all speaking the same language as him. Which is important since he is the one programming them

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Why not just embrace that nuclear weapons are a thing that all industrial countries now can arm themselves with, and start dealing with that as a reality and settling things based on that new context rather than making the transition between conventional and nuclear weapons a massive problem in human history?

Please re read this... and understand why nuclear proliferation limits are in place.... NOT... because "some states don't like what other states do with their people."

If WMDs are OK for anyone (developed or purchased) that can arm themselves with WMD weapons ... 'something the world wouldembrace'... suggested proposed Wars of Thought, Education, Culture, detterence are (IMO) ineffective and impotent.

The world has a long way to go to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament... but it should be clear that allowing everyone / anyone to obtain nuclear weapons and use and weapons technology is a bad idea for people / planet survival.

Please re read this... and understand why nuclear proliferation limits are in place.... NOT... because "some states don't like what other states do with their people."

If WMDs are OK for anyone (developed or purchased) that can arm themselves with WMD weapons ... 'something the world wouldembrace'... suggested proposed Wars of Thought, Education, Culture, detterence are (IMO) ineffective and impotent.

The world has a long way to go to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament... but it should be clear that allowing everyone / anyone to obtain nuclear weapons and use and weapons technology is a bad idea for people / planet survival.

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That leaves totally overwhelming and defeating, now, those who are pursuing them, and the casualties that would incur. Is that suffering worth it?

And as far as NK, they already have it.

I get what you're saying. My response (be it worthy or not) is that we either stop everyone by force or start accepting it.

The fact of the matter was Im sure we.d be happy to leave well enough alone. Since 1953 there were long periods of inactivity until the Norks started another incident. Whether the Pueblo, the DMZ beheading incident, shelling offshore islands, kidnapping Japanese and S Korean nationals etc. Tell me how you can justify their stance - if they just developed nukes itd be one thing. Yes thered be much crying and wailing but you could make simple nukes and put them on arty shells or make nuke landmines - items just to keep the regime in power.

What the DPRK doesnt undeestand is official govt statements that they.ll destroy the US, Australia, Japan, S Korea, etc etc etc coupled with missile launches that violate the territory of their neighbors do nothing but motivate US opinion that "enough is enough"

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I am not sure why you think he is justifying their stance. Understanding an enemies position is important to project your actions. It doesn't mean you agree.

As to actions, right now S Korea is going to pay the price for any action we take. Unilateral action by the US ignoring the risk to S Korea is not exactly behaving like an ally.

True. Unless and until NK makes an overtly aggressive military move, we can't go throwing bombs around. We can continue to apply economic sanctions, but there is no guarantee that that will bring about an end state that we can be satisfied with.

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I am not sure why you think he is justifying their stance. Understanding an enemies position is important to project your actions. It doesn't mean you agree.

Exactly.

Likewise it is of extreme importance to at least attempt to analyse how one's own actions might be perceived (and thus how they might be countered) by an adversary.....The US has, by reason of little more than hubris IMHO, consistently failed to do this since the fall of the Soviet Union.

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The US has, by reason of little more than hubris IMHO, consistently failed to do this since the fall of the Soviet Union.

Oh, it goes back a lot farther than that. The US has meddled in the governments and affairs of other countries, especially in Latin America, for over a century. It is one of the less commendable parts of our history. The fact that many other nations were far worse and for longer is really not a good excuse since we also have claimed over that same period to conduct ourselves on a much higher level. I think that is what gripes our critics the most. They generally understand realpolitik well enough and realize that they have their own dirty laundry. But we should stop taking bows when no one is applauding.

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Oh I dont think hes supporting the Kim regime. Of course understanding your enemy is important. The enigma with Kim is whether he.s mad or being very rational. I wouldnt have taken the provocations as far but if I were in his shoes I would have developed nuclear weapons as well.

My post was really just delivered from an Americans perspective on something a large amount of Americans feel should never have been our problem. As such I felt it necessary to point out that whilst they may have reasons to hate us the DPRK seriously seriously make it worse for themselces every single time, and unfortunately seem to be the biggest likely catalyst of a WW3 scenario atm

And frankly with a 6 year old its hard not to resent the Kim regime for that

P.s. Im also pretty sure sburke and emrys know Im well aware of the Americas dirty actions around the globe going back to the USS Maine... And beyond.

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Don't worry fella, we all want your little one to grow up healthy and happy (alongside our own).

IMHO speaking truth to power is sometimes a necessary part of the public's duty as citizens/subjects.....Despite what they might like to believe, governments are still responsible to their employers and that my friends, is us.

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Despite what they might like to believe, governments are still responsible to their employers and that my friends, is us.

Which also means that ultimate responsibility for their actions and inactions also lies with us. If we continue to put criminal meatheads in office, we will probably get what we deserve. Which is a pretty goddamn scary thought.

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Could some of you American guys maybe point out to your representatives that NK is well aware of "the military options available to defeat any threat", that's exactly why they are currently building nuclear weapons.

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Unfortunately I dont think the election of meatheads is going to stop Emrys. Theres so much political disiveness here in the US, South Park put the choice crudely but aptly - turd sandwich or giant douche.

I really didnt like either major candidate but certainly less the one in office.

I truly dont have the answers to solve this problem Its just clear to me at least that something drastically different has to be done... For all our youngsters

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I think anyone with an interest in what NK artillery can realistically do to Seoul would do well to read this. It pretty much shatters the prevailing "wisdom" regarding the annihilating power of NK's artillery vs a sprawling major city. Would further point out certain military fundamentals have changed regarding the survivability of the NK HART (Hardened Artillery) sites. Back in my Hughes days (early 1978-late 1984) they were practically invulnerable. The best we could hope for, in our assessments, was to jam the immensely thick sand filled doors, since even the mighty Maverick couldn't pierce that much de facto siliceous cored armor. But as we saw in Desert Storm vs Saddam's once practically untouchable HAS (Hardened Aircraft Shelters), we now have munitions, such as the I-2000, which can pierce heavy protection almost effortlessly and destroy the asset behind or beneath it. There has been enormous work done already to figure out where the HARTs are, and the various shellings of the South have doubtless firmed up that picture. Thus, if NK opens up, it's going to start losing HARTs, cannon and MRLs very rapidly to JSOW and JDAM airstrikes, as well as tube and MLRS counterfire, by the SK, the US or both. IF NK uses chemical munitions, I wouldn't want to be in NK.

Kyle Mizokami is no lightweight, either. Can't get the text to cooperate on appearance.

Kyle Mizokami is a defense and national-security writer based in San Francisco who has appeared in theDiplomat,Foreign Policy,War is Boringand theDaily Beast. In 2009, he cofounded the defense and security blogJapan Security Watch.

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I disagree on several levels, firstly he's just another blogger, secondly he ignores the possibility that NK might use chemical weapons, a fairly massive omission.....The commenters in that thread are vastly better informed than its author IMHO.